[guest - Fri Jan 7 13:44:49 2005]:
Show quoted text> A distro like App-Options-0.93 uses Config, which is a special core
> module that is included with Perl and has information about the
> build and platform.
There's actually nothing 'special' about Config -- there's quite a few modules that are core
only and are not published on the CPAN
Show quoted text> When an app specifies it in the Makefile.PL,
> CPANPLUS should not check CPAN for it.
And it doesn't, at least my version of 0.050_04 doesn't:
[MSG] Extracted 'App' to '/Users/kane/.cpanplus/5.8.3/build/App-Context-0.93'
Running [perlc Makefile.PL ]...
Warning: prerequisite App::Options 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Date::Format 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Exception::Class 0 not found.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for App-Context
[MSG] Module 'App' requires 'App::Options' version '0' to be installed
[MSG] Module 'App' requires 'Date::Format' version '0' to be installed
[MSG] Module 'App' requires 'Date::Parse' version '0' to be installed
[MSG] Module 'App' requires 'Exception::Class' version '0' to be installed
[MSG] Trying to get '
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SP/SPADKINS/App-Options
-0.93.tar.gz'
[MSG] Trying to get '
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SP/SPADKINS/CHECKSUMS'
[MSG] Checksum matches for 'App-Options-0.93.tar.gz'
